Hukle v. City of Huntington

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• Because a municipality has no inherent power to levy taxes, the municipality may only do so pursuant to the authority granted to it by the legislature
• “It is well-nigh universal principle that courts will determine and classify taxation on the basis of realities, rather than what the tax is called in the taxing statute or ordinance.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).